Author: Justin Meckes

For some reason, Fox Mulder was no longer played by David Duchovny. Instead, Michael Keaton took on the role. And he’s lecturing Scully in an interrogation room. Quickly thereafter, they go into a hotel room where Scully sees a sheet that’s been written on in blood. While she’s there, she realizes she’s been hypnotized. This […]

There were roadblocks in every direction. But he still managed to escape and speed down a winding road leading to a expansive lake. As he grew closer to the lake he found that the water had overtaken the road, forcing him to slam on the brakes. His red car skidded to a stop, and he […]

Read Alex Clark-McGlenn’s “The Sign For Grief Is Crow.” 1. What made you want to become a writer? Growing up I was severely dyslexic. I didn’t read a book until I was in 8th grade. In that same year, my English teacher shared some of the works of Edgar Allan Poe and ee cummings with […]

Chruck Norris is in a jungle somewhere. He’s stalking an enemy in the hot, humid underbrush until mortar rounds start to hit. Chuck begins to run. He sprints through the jungle until he stops cold. The sound of a nearby mortar is just too close. He shoulders his weapon and scales a tree. He leaps […]

Read Sean Gill’s “Past Lives, Now Available on Videocassette.” 1. What made you want to become a writer? I wrote my first “book” at age seven. It was called Deserted! and was about twenty pages long, illustrated, comb bound, and somehow incredibly derivative of both Robinson Crusoe and the Jabba’s Palace scenes from Return of […]

Read L.P. Lee’s “Hibakusha” in East Asia. 1. What made you want to become a writer? So far I’ve tended to do bursts of writing separated by sometimes quite long intervals doing something else. What makes me want to write each time is a bit different to the last. Today I like writing because my […]

Read Sandor Kovac’s “The Girl in the Flowery Dress.” 1. What made you want to become a writer? In my early twenties, I became the singer of a rock band, and I wrote all the lyrics. I believe, this was the point in my life when I began to enjoy the game of words. I […]

It seemed like I was back in college or in high school in an 80’s movie. A group of guys and I go to a grocery store in a bad part of town and one of my friend’s has their Jeep stolen while we’re inside. We call the cops. As we wait for them to […]

Read Josh Rank’s “Drowning Without Sinking.” 1. What made you want to become a writer? I took a creative writing class in college on a whim. I found myself continually looking around to come up with ideas for stories since we had to turn in quite a lot of writing for an introductory course. After […]

The man–who happened to be a Hugh Grant look-alike–first met the anaconda on a trip to the rainforest. She stalked him on a 1o-day trek through the heart of the Amazon. Somehow he managed to escape the snake’s grasp and the humidity to return home safely. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to the man, the anaconda kept pursuing […]

Read Sara Codair’s “You Can’t Bribe The Dead.” 1. What made you want to become a writer? I’ve always loved to make up stories. As a child, if I got bored, I’d just run around imagining some scenario in my head. Some of the characters were original, others were borrowed from my favorite TV shows. […]

The cosmonaut and I became very close on the space station. So close, in fact, that he began to confide in me. He told me he wanted to defect, so I told him he should come “visit” me in America. After coming to Cape Canaveral, I took him into my home. He wanted to visit an […]